Improvement in breastpin-fastenings



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BREAST-PIN FASTENING. No. 17538 Patented Apri11l.1876

WITNESSES INVENTOB 2/0w v BY N-PE'TEHS, PNOTO-LITHOGRAPNEE WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES- PATENT Darren.

CHARLES O. HOOD, OF PAWTUOKET, RHODE ISLAND.

IM PROVEMENT IN BREASTPlN-FASTE NINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,984, dated April 11, 1876; application filed January 29, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES 0. H001), of Pawtucket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and Improved Breastpin'Fastening, of which the following is a specification In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a top view of my improved breastpinfastening; Fig. 2, a side view, and Fig. 3 a detail view, of the bent pin.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to an improved breastpin i'astenin g for the cheaper kind of jewelry; and consists of a pin bent at a right angle at the end, and set into the longer end of a socket-hin gc, formed by bending a perforated plate around the end of the pin, the shorter socketsection serving to retain the same. The elasticity of the pin is obtained by the contact with a shoulder formed between the socketsections.

In the drawing, A represents a breastpin, brooch, ear-ring, or any other article of jewelry, to which the socket-hinge B is either soldered or formed in one piece therewith by bending the perforated blank or plate over the bent end of the pin 0. The end of the pin 0 is first curved, and then bent at right angles to the pin to be inserted previous to the bend ing of the socket-plate into the hole of the same, so as to form the pintle on which the pin swings in the socket-hinge. The perforation through which the bent end or pintle is inserted is nearer to one end, so as to divide the socket into a longer and a shorter section, of which the former incloses the bent end, while the latter retains the same securely therein.

One shoulder or bearing, .10, formed by the bent plate between the socket-sections, serves to impart the required degree of elasticity to the pin. The pin-fastening is extremely simple, but at the same time strong and reliable, and for these reasons well adapted to the manufacture of cheaper articles of jewelry.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination, with a pin, 0, right-angled at its rear end, of a hinge-plate, having a socket divided into two sections, with intermediate shoulder, as and for the purpose specified.

CHARLES O. HOOD.

Witnesses T. B. MOSHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

